Russian widow claims husband murdered by cannibals in Siberia

The widow of a fisherman who went missing in the Siberian forests last summer
has said she has conclusive proof he was murdered before being eaten by his
companions.

Alexei Gradulenko with wife Irina

By Roland Oliphant, Moscow

2:00PM BST 16 Aug 2013

Andrei Kurochkin's gnawed and chopped-up bones were found in remote taiga forest inRussia's far eastern Amur region shortly after two of his emaciated companions were picked up by rescuers on November 29.

"I've got a copy of the final post-mortem report. It says Andrei was murdered and then dismembered before being eaten," said his wife, Olga Koruchkin.

"The cause of death was definitely not hypothermia or exhaustion," she told the Komsomolskaya Pravda tabloid.

The post mortem shows he suffered three blows to the head, one apparent knife wound, and multiple fractures, she said, demolishing claims by the two survivors of the expedition that Koruchkin died of natural causes.

"I don't understand why the security forces still can't solve a simple puzzle. There were four men, one went missing and the other got a fractured skull. Who did this? Not aliens!"